Members of Afenifere Renewal Group (ARG) have called on governors in the South-West to urgently work out strategy to check the incessant violent attacks of Fulani herdsmen in the region. The group in a statement issued on Wednesday by the National Chairman, Olawale Oshun, charged the governors to wake up to their responsibilities before the tragedies get out of hand.
According to him;
“Yoruba governors must now come together to find a lasting solution to the marauding herdsmen. They are now causing mayhem in Ekiti, Ondo and Ogun states and we need not wait until they overrun all our territories before waking from our slumber. Two months ago, we had cause to alert all the Yoruba governors and their state governments to the need to be proactive to the Fulani herdsmen’s potential to overrun parts of the South-West in the purported but false search for food for their cattle.
“We had in seeking that our governors pay attention to the unfolding herdsmen drama been worried by their silence, a silence that in many quarters of Yorubaland is now interpreted as self-serving and cowardly,” he said.
The statement is coming two days after suspected Fulani herdsmen struck in Ekiti and Ondo states, killing and dismembering two persons.